Americans will lose an hour of sleep tonight in exchange for another hour of afternoon daylight, but nearly half don’t think the extra daylight is worth it.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 47% of American Adults do not think Daylight Saving Time is “worth the hassle,” while 43% disagree. Ten percent (10%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

This is nearly identical to findings from November
and last March when Daylight Saving Time last ended and began.

Thirty-five percent (35%) of adults admit that they have arrived early or late somewhere because they forgot to change their clocks for Daylight Saving Time. Sixty-two percent (62%) say they haven't had that problem.

The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on March 7-8, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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